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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1908

252 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 13

A Destructive Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 December 1908 · page 5

A typhoon off Hatsu Island wrecked 35 boats and drowned 350 Japanese fisherman…

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Police Court. Thursday, December 3rd. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M.). Drunkenness

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 December 1908 · page 7

F. White, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness In John-street, was fined 2/6. or the rising of the court with court costs 6/-…

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Scenes in Indian Flood Disaster. Heroic Lady Doctors. Hyderabad (India), Sept. 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1908 · page 6

The magnitude of the calamity which visited Hyderabah, the Nizam's capital, to-day, brief details of which I have already cabled to you, is surely unsurpassed by any…

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Scenes in Indian Flood Disaster. Heroic Lady Doctors. Hyderabad (India). Sept, 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 December 1908 · page 7

The magnitude of the calamity which visited Hyderaban, the Nizam's capita, today, brief details of which I have already cabled to you, is surely unsurpassed by any…

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A Violent Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 December 1908 · page 7

A violent thunderstorm passed over the town yesterday afternoon, when there were terrific peals and clouds of dust that filled the highway's and got into dwellings and business places in…

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Violent Storms in Victoria. Much Damage and Many Narrow Escapes

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 December 1908 · page 1

A violent storm occurred at Hopetown (Vic.) on Monday. Haystacks were razed to the ground, and in the town sheets of iron were blown and twisted about like…

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Storm at Allynbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 4

Our Allynbrook correspondent states that a terrific storm was experienced there on Tuesday afternoon, which did a good deal of damage to fences, crops, etc. Several…

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Terrific Storm in Stroud District Serous Damage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 5

A terrific storm passed over the district on Tuesday last (says our Stroud correspondent). Very little rain was registered, but the force of the wind amounted…

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Terrific Storm in Stroud District. Serious Damage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 16 December 1908 · page 1

A terrific storm passed over the Stroud district on Tuesday last. Very little rain was registered, but the force of the wind amounted to a…

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Storm's Jewellery Business

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 4

Mr. Edward Storm, who has been established in the watchmaking and jewellery business for the past 30 years, intimates in our advertising columns that he has in stock…

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Last Night's Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 December 1908 · page 5

[?] to hand show that a good deal of damage [?] to telephone during last night's. A house at Darlinghurst was struck by [?] and the alarmed residents rushed into…

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A Severe Gale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 December 1908 · page 5

Yesterday's gale was the worst for 14 years. Great damage was done to fruit crops in the suburbs, while many buildings were unroofed and fences blown down…

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Some of Nature's Great Calamities. Parallels to the Awful Floods in India

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 4

We have been singularly free (says an English exchange) from great calamities like that which has occurred in India, but we have had at least two, although very few…

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